Paris (AFP)

Putting in place curfews in the large metropolises most affected by the resurgence of the Covid-19 epidemic would confirm the "failure" of the executive to contain it, estimated Wednesday the bosses of EELV Julien Bayou and of the PCF Fabien Roussel.

Emmanuel Macron could announce Wednesday at 7:55 p.m., in an interview on TF1 and France 2, curfews which should especially affect the large cities where the epidemic is racing.

"The curfew, it finally signs a failure", estimated Mr. Bayou on Public Senate, recalling that the assessment mission mandated by Emmanuel Macron pointed to "manifest defects of anticipation, preparation and management" of the health crisis.

He also wondered about the means to "enforce" it in suburban towns where the police force is insufficient.

"This is why I am asking for consistency, and that we start by decongesting public transport", which sometimes resemble "virus cattle trucks, rolling clusters", continued the national secretary of EELV, by calling for "direct fast shuttles at peak hours", like the "coronapistes" created for bicycles at the time of confinement.

He also called for more "readability", "so that the measures are accepted".

The national secretary of the PCF Fabien Roussel also pleaded, on BFMTV and RMC, for more "coherence" and "transparency".

For him too, "if a curfew were to be announced tonight, it would be a statement of failure", while at the same time "our hospitals are still lacking beds and human resources" and the French continue to "pile up in subways, RER, TER" to go to work.

They are according to him "ready to accept still a lot of things" to fight against the virus, but "why has not one not set up much more teleworking since the return" in particular, which would have made it possible to avoid "now coercive measures".

For the Ecology, Democracy and Solidarity deputy Aurélien Taché, who wished on Sud Radio that companies be forced to apply teleworking, it would be "very complicated" to "enforce" curfews.

On the right, the Secretary General of the Republicans Aurélien Pradié estimated that in a context of health crisis, any decision of the government must be "supported", but the "brutal decisions that may have to be taken are the consequence of the lack of strategy of this government, "he accused.

If the curfew could possibly allow "to avoid the propagation (of the virus) in certain very dense cities", it would be necessary in any case "to be extremely rigorous and especially to be fair", he specified.

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